Harrow attachment



May 25,1926.

A. E. STARRETT 'HARRow ATTACHMENT Film. July e, 1925 May 25, 1926.

yF I E AARON E. STARRETT, OF NEWTON, IOWA.

- HARBOW ATTACHMENT.

Application filed July 6, "1925.

rlhc object of my invention is to provide a device in the nature of an attachment for harrows, whereby a horrow ofconsiderable length may be easily and quickly transported ii from one position to another. It has been customary heretofore to load the harrows on some kind of a skid or wagon when it is desired to move them from one field to another, as the harrow as operated in the field is of considerably greater width than the gates through which it has to pass or the bridges over which it has to cross.

It is, therefore, more specifically the object of my invention to provide a device F which may be easily and quickly applied to harrows of various makes, and when so applied may be moved to position whereby the hai-row may be elevated and lifted from the ground and transported from one point to another by moving the harrow endways.

A further object is to provide a skid attachinent for harrows which may be easily and quickly applied and adapted .to be r thrown to an inoperative position while the harrow is in use, and when it is desired to move the harrow from one position to another the device may be quickly thrown into operative position, after which the harrow is elevated above the ground by draft animals or a tractor moving the harrow.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of the various parts of the device, whereby the vobjects contemplated are attained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a plan view of a harrow showing the manner in which my improved device is attached thereto.

Figure 2 is a detail sectional view on the line 2 2 of Figure 1, showing my device i moved to an inoperative position and the harrow in an operative position.

Figure 3 is taken on the section line 2-2 of Figure 1, showing my improved device in an operative position withV the harrow elevated above the ground surface.

The numeral indicates the toot-hed bars of a harrow section, which is of common construction. Said toothed bars are pivotally mounted in transversely arranged. bars 11. The forward ends of the bars 11 aie proiided with links 12 which are connected to the draw bar 13. The draw bar 13 may be of any desired length and any Serial No. 41,678.

number of sections may be attached to the draw bar. In Figure 1, I have illustrated two sections, said sections being connected together by means of chains 14 connected .fm

tudinal movement relative to each other, due

to the slack of the chains. rlChe chains 14, however, are of such length that when drawn taut the bars 11 of one section will be substantially parallel with the bars 11 of an adjacent section.l

Each of the bars 11 is provided with a pair of clamping members 15 which coinprise a short vertically arranged bar 16 and al longer vertical bar 17. has at its upper end a loop portion 18. The said bars 16 and 17 are arranged on opposite sides of the bar 11 and secured together by means of bolts 19. The loops 18 are designed to pivotally carry a rod 20, each end of which is provided with a laterally extending portion 21 which terminates in a right angle portion 22, which in turn terminates in a curved portion 23. The free end of the curved portion 23 is fiat-tened at 24 to serve as a runner. A i

When the harrow is being operated the members 24 are thrown to the position shown in Figure 2 with said members e tending upwardly, and the member 21 rest ing against the member 11. lVhen it is desired to move the harrow from one position to another, the teaiif` or tractor is disconnected from the draw bar 13 and the said draw bar folded to position over the forward. end of the bars 11, after which the tractor or draft animals are attached to the hooks 25 at one end of the outer one of the harrow sections. The members 24 are then rotated to the position shown in dotted lines in Figure 2, after which forward movement to the left is imparted to the harrow, which will cause the members 24 to be rotated to the position shown in Figure 3, and the toothed bars elevated from the ground, after.

which the harrow may be moved to any position, either through gates or over bridges. Ilhe total width of the harrow is less than five feet. The chains 14 serve. to connect the back section to the forward section, and provide means for moving said back sections endways.

@las it will be .Sees I have Provided ai rThe bar 17 attachment for harroivs which may be easily and quickly applied to most of the harrows in Common use with the use of a Wrench, and when so applied will obviate the necessity of loading` the harrow onto some vehicle When it is desired to move it from one position to another.

I claim as my invention:

l. A harrow attachment Comprising' a pair ol Clampingl members, a shaft rotatively mounted therein, said shaft being provided with` a paii` ot runners mounted in planes transverse to said shaft.

In combination, a harroiv section having* toothed bars and connecting bars, a pair ot' clamps for one of said Connectingl bars, a shatt rotatively mounted parallel with said eonneeting'bars, said shaft being provided u'itli laterally extending portions, said laterally extending portions terminating` in runners, said runners being adapted to swing lroin a position beneath the barrow to a position above it, substantially as described and for the purposes stated.

3. ln combination, a harrow section having toothed bars and connecting` bars, a pair ot clamps for one of said Connectingl bars, a shaft rotatively mounted parallel with said eonneet-ing bars, said shaft being provided with lat rally extending. portions, said laterally extending portions terminating in runners, said runners being adapted to swing from a position beneath the harroiv to a position above it, and flexible means for eonneeting the ends of two of said harrow sections together.

l. ln eon'ibiuation, a harrow section having' a number of toothed bars and connecting,` hars, means 'Capable of beingl thrown from an inoperative to an operative position, and adapted to automatically elevate the harrovv above the ground surface when thrown to said operative position and when the said harroiv is moved endivays in one direetion.

A barrow attachment, comprising a pair ot Clamping` inenibers, each ot' which coinpilses a short bar and a longer bar, the lonnur bar being provided with a loop, a shaft rotatively mounted in said members, said shat't being provided with a laterally e1 tending portion, said laterally extending portion terminatingin a right angle por tion, said right angle portion terniinatii'ig in a curved port-ion, and said curved portion terminating, in a flattened portion, and Clampingy bolts tor said bars.

.Des Moines, Iowa, June 19. 1925.

AARON E. STARRETT. 

